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This past week it was oil taking the bear baton from equities, leading the market lower and focusing investor minds. It's been hard going for the asset class - excessive supply builds in the US, weakening global growth, the granting of waivers to buyers of Iranian crude and what looked like technical selling mid-week all helped to keep pressure on crude.
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Colliers International notes that B.C. residents were among those most in favour of legalizing cannabis, but its recent survey of worker attitudes found the province's office tenants are also the most likely to favour tight restrictions on the marketing, sale and use of cannabis in office buildings. Just 26 per cent felt cannabis should be modestly or mostly unrestricted.
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Home-renting company Airbnb Inc said on Monday that it had decided to remove its listings in Jewish settlements in the West Bank, enclaves that most world powers consider illegal for taking up land where Palestinians seek statehood. In response, Israel's Tourism Minister Yariv Levin instructed the ministry to restrict the company's operations across the country.
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Whilst renting a home was pretty much the norm up until about 1970, the Thatcher government's commitment to making us a nation of homeowners started a reversal of this trend. Of course, the reasons for this are numerous and require detailed analysis to be fully understood, but one of the key factors influencing a return to renting is the cost of home ownership.
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Welcome to Money Diaries , where we're tackling what might be the last taboo facing modern working women: money. We're asking millennials how they spend their hard-earned money during a seven-day period - and we're tracking every last dollar.
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